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LLVMpipe Doesn't Yet Like The GNOME Shell

Phoronix: LLVMpipe Doesn't Yet Like The GNOME Shell

Last week we published our first benchmarks of LLVMpipe, which is a new driver for Gallium3D that's to serve as a software rasterizer on the CPU. LLVMpipe is ideal for cases where a GPU is not available or supported and it leverages LLVM (the Low-Level Virtual Machine) for optimization and providing much better software acceleration than Mesa's traditional software rasterizer or Gallium3D's previous Softpipe driver. LLVMpipe really likes modern, fast processors with SSE3/SSE4 support especially for best performance, but will work with nearly any 64-bit Intel/AMD processor. Unfortunately, LLVMpipe doesn't yet play well with GNOME Shell...

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No you should offer a *good* experience to all users... loading down your CPU with bling will not do that. This is little more than proof of concept unless we get oct-channel ram and 16 way processing :-)

If a computer doesn't have a 3d accelerator you shouldn't be doing 3d...and running compiz or gnomeshell would defeat the purpose of LLVMpipe as well (which is to make software rendering better as they would slow any 3d operations down in user software significantly.)

LLVMpipe will let people without a 3d card and a fast CPU play a few opengl games... but little more

I don't I necessarily agree. Whilst yes it is important not to bog down the cpu. It seems that gnome will be relying on graphic acceleration capable hardware more and more.

The result from this is going to be a very modern (i.e blingy) desktop, I think that regardless though you will want to keep as many people as close to a homogeneous system as possible. Especially if you are selling support and telling people where graphic settings are hidden like canonical is.

For people who don't even have a smidge of acceleration i think that there are more light weight distros to offer such as lubuntu or at a pinch xbuntu or my personal favorite #!.